Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Role Overview

You will take ownership of the firm’s entire infrastructure landscape—spanning physical data centers, virtualized environments, and public cloud footprints—and steer it toward greater stability, performance, and scalability. On a day-to-day basis, this means leading engineering squads, designing architectural roadmaps, and stepping in when incidents or migrations demand senior-level judgment. Your work directly supports business continuity, security compliance, and the organization’s ability to grow without technology bottlenecks.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and direct the rollout of new infrastructure systems, including compute clusters, storage arrays, network segments, and hybrid cloud connectivity, ensuring they align with long-term business priorities.
• Oversee the daily operation of all production environments, defining uptime targets, capacity thresholds, and performance baselines for both on-premises and cloud resources.
• Lead complex infrastructure initiatives end-to-end—such as datacenter refreshes, cloud migrations, virtualization platform upgrades, and resilience testing—from planning through post-implementation review.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and incident-response practices that proactively identify risks, reduce mean time to resolution, and prevent recurring failures.
• Enforce rigorous security and compliance controls across the infrastructure stack, including patch management, access governance, encryption standards, and disaster-recovery drills.
• Coach and mentor infrastructure engineers and support analysts, setting engineering standards, reviewing designs, and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous learning.
• Partner with application development, security, and operations teams to ensure infrastructure roadmaps support product launches and emerging business requirements.
• Manage relationships with hardware vendors, cloud providers, and managed service partners, negotiating service levels and tracking third-party delivery.
• Produce executive-level reporting on infrastructure health, capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and risk mitigation, translating technical detail into actionable business insight.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• At least six years of hands-on infrastructure engineering experience, with increasing responsibility across design, deployment, and operations.
• Minimum of three years in a technical leadership or senior engineering capacity, including direct mentorship of junior team members and ownership of infrastructure outcomes.
• Substantial background managing enterprise-scale environments—typically 1,000+ users or mission-critical systems—with strict uptime and security requirements.
• Demonstrated proficiency spanning both on-premises (bare-metal, virtualized, private cloud) and public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) platforms, including hybrid architectures and migration patterns.
• Deep working knowledge of server hardware, enterprise storage (SAN/NAS/object), networking (routing, switching, firewalls, load balancers), virtualization platforms, and containerized workloads.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and project-management capabilities, with experience leading cross-functional workstreams under deadlines.
• Proven ability to translate business objectives into infrastructure strategy and to communicate technical trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.